Thomas D. Sequist
Thomas D. Sequist, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multispecialty physician group practice. He received his medical degree in 1999 from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2002. Following his clinical training, he completed the Harvard General Medicine fellowship, concurrently receiving a Masters in Public Health degree in 2004 from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Sequist maintains an active research agenda in quality improvement and racial disparities. His work in this area involves the use of health information technology, patient and provider education, disease management strategies, and performance reporting to improve patient care, with a focus on care for minority patients. Dr. Sequist is also a member of the Taos Pueblo tribe in northern New Mexico, and works closely with the Indian Health Service to study the quality of health care delivered within this organization, seeking to improve the health status of all Native Americans as well as expand our knowledge of the role that integrated health systems play in improving quality and reducing disparities.
Project Title: “Understanding Barriers to Quality Improvement within the Indian Health Service”
Project Databases: Survey of all 873 federally employed physicians in the HIS and HIS national electronic medical record system.
Recent and Pending Publications
"Understanding Barriers to Delivery High Quality Care within the Indian Health Services." In press.